Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-23
DAKOTA.
Crops about De Smet are looking well.
Faulktou has a scEool norul.,d,r NJ 90

liquor licenses for a less period than one year.
Harvesting is in progress Ia Jcrauld
county.
The Consolidated Tank line has located in
| Mitchell.
Yankton county farmers are harvesting
Their oats.
Yankton saloonkeepers will probably all
| pay the $500 license and continue In the busi.
| ress.
The assessment Of Parker is S!10,555. of
which S96,O05 is personal property and Ella
$50 real.
Secretary Dan Scott reports a big list Of
entries for the Sioux Falls races, July Is, 10
and 20.
The Deadwood policemen, by special act OF
the city council, Is EGw entitled e SO cents
for the slaughter OF each unlicensed dog.
Judge Spencer's next term Of court will be
in Grant county, next week, for the trial cf
VIM VI. Evans, the defaulting county treas
urer.
Senator John Sherman has written to q
friend in Mitchell that he will 90 ell be can
for the admission tf the territory next session
ofcongress.
The examination OF George f. Ia r, the &C.
faulting agent OF the Elkhorn line Buffalo
Gap, resulted IN his being boun over to
await the action OF the Custer cou ! grand
jury in 1920 bail.
Judge Stewart. of Turner count sold his
large wool clip at 30 cents a poL ~. He re-
celved about Il, 200 for hts We clip this
year, and has his original flock sad iacrease
in lambs besides.
On Wednesday night a hail sto' m G mayed
wheat TO the extent Of $4,000. The n was
tue hardest for years. l. htniu killed
several head Of cattle, and sci ne l..umb.a
court house on fire.
The Minnekahta hotel and b. house at
Hot Springs has been leased for defnite
period to Mr.. j. w. Zollarc, OF The ! TX hotel,
Rapid City, who In the future VII be man.
ager and landlord.
The annual meeting Of the Dahcta Press
association will be held at Big Stont City on
July ~, IS and go. One fare will b. charged
Tor the trip, and editors will be allowed to
take ladies under this arrangement.
The board of trade Of Yankton rec, ~ al.
dressed a long and strong letter toe rnor
Church concerning the Yankton asyI,5a mat.
tiers, and asking him to approve the ans for
the new wings. The board has as yet we'd
no reply.
Rapid City Republican, -: The Ia syers
are now squabbling over the town sit, cases.
The bone Of contention seems to be wi, ther
or not the city charter is a legal doc ment.
With a few more lawyers In town it W. "A be
an easy matter to prove that an IRE. bic
force, coming in contact with an immu,aot
body, would cause An earthquake.
The Caledonia mine, in the Hills, WI ,dd
forty stamps to the sixty 1t now has, givt. 1t
a capacity Of 10000 tons Of ore a mo. u.
Something more than S2lS0,OO was taken
out OF this mine for the year ended April 30.
A terrific tornado and hail storm passed
over the northern portion of Hughes and the
southern portion OF Sully counties Sunday
night. Stones as large as hens eggs beat the
crops out CT time while the wind laid houses
low.
Sim Nichols, who received a coat Of ter for
beating ard otherwise abusing his wife IN
D~eadwood, is at Rapid City, and informs The
newsl apers that he is a much maligned man.
According to his story he was all tenderness
"'s W w bIo WIN TX ulaIlItl Ilif
was one OF peace and happiness and the tar
ring was done out Of personal spite and
malice
The Onida Journal editer makes this apol-
cgy: II the paper is rather dull this week.
we won't ask you to excuse US. The style Of
composition and matter may be tiresome
You know what ais us. The Fourth only
comes once a year. And when you drive
sixty-fve miles, llay nine innings Ct bail,
and lose two nights sleep, a person will be
both mentally and physically incapacitated
for editorial duty.
A switchman named Charles Larson was
killed In the yard OF the Northwestern rail
way comp any Sunday at Waterfowl. lie was
switching cars and while making a running
switch failed to catch the car and fell to the
track in front OF the locomotive, which pass
ed over his head, crushing 1t from the body.
Coroner Groesbeck held an inquest
Monday. Larson leaves a young wife to
whom he had been married but two months.
Sioux Fails Press, 10: The city council
fixed the equalized value OF the city at 50, 6SS,-
92o, of which ~, 954, AS lis real estate and
1874, 515 personal property. A compromise
Was made with the banks and the dispute be-
tween the city and the banks settled hy list
ing In the name Of the presidents the entire
capital stock at 20 cents on the dollar, which
gives a total asses sment on the four national
banks OF $l75, COO. This is an increase Of
nearly 5000, 600 over last year, or about 20 ger
cent.
YaIkt"n Press Grd Dakotian, 10: The
dea'h OF Hon. John Mcbride Is announced.
Mr.. McB~ide, was a member OF the first Ds-
kota leSitlature, repre- senting what to-day Is
kr,wn IA Union county. He has been
tami" AT with Dakota for kali a century, hay
iDg ben Que OF the employees Of the old Amer
lean Fur company. lie was a genial hospit-
abe g~cn'l:man OF the pioneer school and
greatly re pected 10y tie old settlers with
whom he used to mirgle In public couuciis.
The following IS a syuopsis of the resolu.
ttun adopted by the division and admission
conventions: That we are upaIterably op-
posed h admission as a whole: we declare
for division on the seventh standard parallel:
We urge The importance OF a full vote on this
qut stiou t-e convention affiims the right OF
he people ,bout 10 be admitted 10 the